Business & Tech Facebook Taking Heat for Blocking News About Wildfires From Canadian Users A new Canadian law requiring Facebook to compensate news outlets for using their content has led the social media company to just block news article posts outright, which has unintended consequences as wildfires continue to rage in Canada.
SF News Fear Of Trump Spurs Internet Archive To Create Canadian Backup The internet is moving to Canada — well, a backup of its history is, anyway. The San Francisco-based Internet Archive announced yesterday in a blog post that following the election of Donald Trump, the
SF News 'Ornery' Passenger Forces SFO-Bound Plane To Make Emergency Landing An unruly passenger prompted a flight heading to SFO to make an impromptu pitstop Saturday morning. Adding insult to injury, SkyWest flight 5345 had to land in Reno of all places. According to
SF News Canadian Newspaper Company to Purchase SF Examiner SF Appeal breaks news that SF Examiner will be sold to a Canadian Newspaper company Black Press Group. According to a statement later released by the company, the sale expected to close on
SF News Canadians to Install Promotional Zip-Line Along Embarcadero In what could very well be the most exhilarating to happen to San Francisco since the Presidio trampoline park, a bushel of Canadians are setting up a 600-footer in Justin Herman Plaza last
SF News Is Your BlackBerry Screwed Up, Too? Ours was. And how. It would neither send nor receive email for hours. The horror. Hitting all carriers, it turns out the BlackBerry outage afflicted enterprise users across the United States and Canada
SF News Calling All Flamers You have, well, two entire days to fill out and return your application to become a torchbearer for the San Francisco leg of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay. The San Francisco relay
Arts & Entertainment New Global Monopoly Game Leaves Its Heart Elsewhere Though this may amuse a smattering of transplants who neither want this city to grow nor evolve into the world-class city it secretly is, a new global Monopoly board is coming and San
Arts & Entertainment Good Samaritan at 30,000 Feet Not three feet from our chair was a woman lying on the floor, passed out with blood oozing from the back of her head. Janet, who was traveling to Canada, had passed out,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Nice package. -- Of Montreal: Someone was talking of this art-rock outfit the other night -- quite controversially, in fact -- and we thought that they were talking about the city in Canada.
SF News Bernal Heights Burrowing Owl In Danger? We got word today from an anonymous source that two residents of Bernal Heights -- including a former President of Golden Gate Audubon Society -- spotted a burrowing owl a block from their
misc Quebecoise Same-Sex Jailhouse Wedding This begs the question: which one is the bitch? Like most gay guys, they both probably say that they're versatile, but once you get them in bed? Total bitches. Also, this sucks. Even
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Is this tiny Smart Car your New Ride? Have you seen one of these cars around? Is it for you? When can you get one to drive on the streets of San Francisco? Will boisterous yoots tip your vehicle over as
SF News Blowing Up Acid In Hayward Dry picric acid is apparently very sensitive to shock and friction, and can explode like dynamite. This one article we found says it blows up when you drop a 2 kg weight on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Wing: With album titles like Wing Sings Elvis, Wing Sings AC/DC, Dancing Queen by Wing, and Beatles Classics by Wing, it's easy to see why she shot to cult-icon status and
misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly,
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Made: Spending time with the SF Craft Mafia Who needs the Sopranos when there’s the San Francisco Craft Mafia? That’s right, we said craft mafia. You got a problem with that? We hope not, because this group is taking
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Paperwork The City Attorney's gone through all the residency documents that beleaguered Burlingame boy and erstwhile supposed San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew provided last week, and ---- baaaaaaaaahmp -- (that's supposed to be a
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Congorama</i> It's easy to make a heroic character lovable and the bad guy despicable, but it's much more of an accomplishment to turn a fallible, sweaty, chubby guy with real flaws, including a seriously
misc Around The -Ists Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we
SF News It's Getting Cold In Here We don't know about you, but it seemed like the temperature dropped about ten degrees in an hour or so yesterday. In fact, the day started off rather nicely but then the wind
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Matt Costa What’s the best show you’ve ever played and what made it great? My favorite my favorite was the first show I ever did which was at a party when I was
misc Craigslist Encounters: This "Crook"-ed Saga Continues Just as we were putting away the original Jason Fortuny Seattle Craigslist scandal, a copy-cat comes along and tries to run the same prank again. This time with "better" results (Better only in
misc Week in -Ist Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to be concerned about which subterranean
